Richard P. Hallion

Desert Storm 1991 (eBook, PDF)

The most shattering air campaign in history
Illustrator: Tooby, Adam

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An expertly written, illustrated new analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign fought against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in just 39 days, and revolutionized the world's ideas about modern air power.

Operation Desert Storm took just over six weeks to destroy Saddam Hussein's war machine: a 39-day air campaign followed by a four-day ground assault. It shattered what had been the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force, and overturned conventional military assumptions about the effectiveness and value of air power.

In this book, Richard P. Hallion, one of the world's foremost experts on air warfare, explains why Desert Storm was a revolutionary victory, a war won with no single climatic battle. Instead, victory came thanks largely to a rigorously planned air campaign. It began with an opening night that smashed Iraq's advanced air defense system, and allowed systematic follow-on strikes to savage its military infrastructure and field capabilities. When the Coalition tanks finally rolled into Iraq, it was less an assault than an occupation.

The rapid victory in Desert Storm, which surprised many observers, led to widespread military reform as the world saw the new capabilities of precision air power, and it ushered in today's era of high-tech air warfare.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472846945
• Artikelnr.: 63254923

Autorenporträt

Richard P. Hallion holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Maryland, and has completed specialized governmental and national security programs at the Federal Executive Institute, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has been a Curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum; a Historian with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Air Force; the Harold Keith Johnson Chair of Military History at the Army War College; the Charles Lindbergh Professor at the National Air and Space Museum; a Senior Issues and Policy Analyst for the Secretary of the Air Force; the Air Force Historian; a Senior Advisor for Air and Space Issues for the Air Force's Directorate for Security, Counterintelligence, and Special Programs; a Special Advisor for Aerospace Technology for the Air Force Chief Scientist; a Senior Advisor to the Science and Technology Policy Institute of the Institute for Defense Analyses; a Research Associate in Aeronautics for the National Air and Space Museum; and a Trustee of Florida Polytechnic University.

He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Member of the Order of Daedalians who has flown as a mission observer in a wide range of military aircraft. He lives in Florida.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION CHRONOLOGY ATTACKER'S CAPABILITIES
The airpower of a global coalition
Ordnance
Training DEFENDER'S CAPABILITIES
Iraq's military machine
The invading armed forces
Saddam's air power
Organization
Air defenses CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES
Resolution and resolve THE CAMPAIGN
42 days to Kuwait City
Final countdown
Opening night: an assessment
Grappling in the Central Blue
Preventing resurgence: the shelter
busting campaign
Per Ardua: Tornado at war
The Iraqi SAM threat: suppressed but not eliminated
Targeting Iraq's power infrastructure and forces
Weather
The battle against the Scuds
Clash of arms at al
Khafji: Saddam's calculated lashing
out
Victory at sea: securing the northern Persian Gulf
Phase III: "preparing the battlefield" or "destroying the battlefield?"
The intelligence debate
The al
Firdos bunker bombing
Phase IV: to G
Day and afterwards
Endgame AFTERMATH AND ANALYSIS FURTHER READING INDEX